Liza Minnelli

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Image:1966 LizaMinnelli.jpg Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and her second husband, acclaimed film director Vincente Minnelli (who was of Italian and French descent).

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Early career

Minnelli's first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime, starring her mother and Van Johnson. Audiences adored her as the "chunky little ball of energy".Template:Fact

Minnelli started performing at age 16, in 1963, in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received good notices. The next year, her mother invited Minnelli to perform with her at the London Palladium. The audience loved her, launching her musical career. She returned to Broadway at 19, and won a 1965 Tony Award for Flora the Red Menace. Minnelli would also receive Tony Awards for The Act in 1978 and a special Tony in 1974. She was nominated in 1984 for The Rink but lost to her costar, Chita Rivera.

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Film and television

The film The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), in which Minnelli starred as a love-seeking teenage misfit, garnered the young actress her first Academy Award nomination. In 1972, Minnelli won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sally Bowles in the movie version of Cabaret, along with Joel Grey who won an Oscar reprising his role from the original Broadway production (that of the Emcee).

Minnelli has the distinction of being one of the few Academy Award winners whose parents are both Academy Award nominees. She has also won an Emmy Award for the 1972 TV special Liza with a Z. Minnelli received a 1990 Grammy Legend Award. She received Golden Globe Awards for Cabaret and for the TV movie A Time to Live.

Minnelli, like her mother, is known for her powerful vocal style, as in her trademark songs "Cabaret" and "Theme from New York, New York". Minnelli's original version of the latter, for the film in which she was a co-star with Robert DeNiro, preceded Frank Sinatra's successful cover version (for his Trilogy album), by two years.

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Later career

Following her 2002 wedding to David Gest, Minnelli and Gest signed with the American cable network VH1 to star in their own reality series, but production of the series was cancelled at the last minute.

In 2004 and 2005 she appeared as a recurring guest star on the critically acclaimed TV sitcom Arrested Development as the lover of sexually and socially awkward Buster Bluth.

On January 1, 2006, she sang "New York, New York" at the second inauguration of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Other famous performances were at the 1978 Studio 54 party honoring New York City's revival, at which a guest was Mayor Ed Koch; the reopening of the Statue of Liberty on July 4, 1986; and at a 2001 New York Mets baseball game that was the metro area's first major sporting event after the September 11 attacks.


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Marriages

Like her mother, Minnelli has had several marriages. She also has been linked romantically to director Martin Scorsese, actor Peter Sellers, pianist Billy Stritch, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and actor Desi Arnaz Jr. Her husbands have been:

  • Peter Allen (real name Peter Allen Woolnough) (March 3, 1967 – 1972). Australian-born Allen, who died of complications from AIDS in 1992, was Judy Garland's protegé in the mid-1960s.
  • Jack Haley Jr., (September 15, 1974 – 1979), a producer and director. His father, Jack Haley, was Garland's co-star in The Wizard of Oz.
  • Mark Gero (December 4, 1979 – 1992), a sculptor and stage manager.
  • David Gest (March 16, 2002 – July 25, 2003), a concert promoter. The couple announced to the press in late 2002 that they would be adopting a three-year-old girl, to be named Serena Gest. They announced their divorce in 2003. Minnelli ignored the myriad rumors swirling around Gest regarding his sexual orientation. Minnelli also was not put off by Gest's long-standing hobby of acquiring Judy Garland collectibles.
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Filmography

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Music

Albums

  • Best Foot Forward (1963) (Original Cast Recording)
  • Liza! Liza! (1964) US #115
  • Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli Live at the London Palladium (1965) US #41
  • Flora the Red Menace (1965) (Original Cast Recording) US #111
  • It Amazes Me (1965)
  • There Is a Time (1966)
  • The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood (1966) (soundtrack)
  • Liza Minnelli (1968)
  • Come Saturday Morning (1969)
  • New Feelin' (1970) US #158
  • Liza Minnelli: Live at the Olympia in Paris (1972, recorded in December 1969)
  • Cabaret (1972) (soundtrack) US #25 UK #13
  • Liza with a 'Z' (1972) (soundtrack) US #19 ÙK #9
  • The Singer (1973) US #38 UK #45
  • Liza Minnelli: Live at the Winter Garden (1974) US #150
  • Lucky Lady (1975) (soundtrack)
  • A Matter of Time (1976) (soundtrack)
  • New York, New York (1977) (soundtrack) US #50
  • Tropical Nights (1977)
  • The Act (1978) (Original Cast Recording)
  • Live at Carnegie Hall (1981, realised by Minnelli herself in limited editions)
  • The Rink (1984) (Original Cast Recording)
  • Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall (1987) US #156
  • Results (1989) US #128 UK #6
  • Stepping Out (1991) (soundtrack)
  • Liza: Live from Radio City Music Hall (1992)
  • Paris (1995) (w/ Charles Aznavour)
  • The Life: A New Musical (1996) (concept album)
  • Gently (1996) US #156 UK #58
  • Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace (1999)
  • Liza's Back (2002)
  • The God-Mother and The God-Daughter (coming soon)

Hit Singles

  • "You Are For Loving" (1963, has reportedly sold 500 000 copies, but never charted)
  • "(Theme From) New York, New York" (US #104, 1977)
  • "Losing My Mind" (UK #6, August 1989) (#11 on US Dance chart)
  • "Don't Drop Bombs" (UK #46, October 1989)
  • "So Sorry, I Said" (UK #62, November 1989)
  • "Love Pains" (UK #41, March 1990) (#40 on US dance chart)
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Selected television work

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Stage Productions

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Trivia

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References

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